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ePADD - NHPRC Innovation Grant underway

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SUL’s Special Collections received an Innovation Grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to develop a software program (ePADD) for processing and makingemail archives discoverable. The end goal is to produce an open-source tool that will allow repositories and individuals to interact with email archives before and after they have been transferred to a repository. It would consist of four modules, each based on a different functional activity: Processing (arrangement and description), Appraisal (collection development), Discovery (online via the web), and Delivery (access).

The late summer and early fall were spent in planning and preparation efforts:

setting up contracts with our programming team – notably IxoraTechnology[LINK];

drafting wire frames for the first module in development - Appraisal;

and final reviews of the functional requirements.

Our in-house team - Peter Chan, Glynn Edwards, and Daniel Hartwig- met with other Stanford staffto review early wire frame drafts for the Appraisal UI. Chief among these were archivists from both SLAC and Hoover. Peter and I held our kick-off meeting with ChaiyasitManovit and SudheendraHangal in late September to discuss timelines, wire frames, and goals of the project. Programming effort for the Appraisal module started on October 15. We expect to completethe first iteration by January 15, 2014.

Daniel Hartwig (SUL) and Laura O'Hara (SLAC) have agreed to take on the User Documentation throughout the project.